Conference Program - Armenians and the Cold War, 1-3 April 2016, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

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April 01, 2016 - April 03, 2016

CONFERENCE PROGRAM “ARMENIANS AND THE COLD WAR” April 1-3, 2016 Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn

FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016

5:00-6:30 pm

Meet & Greet with the Participants of the Conference

6:30-7:00 pm

Words of Welcome

Representative of the University of Michigan-Dearborn administration

Asbed Kotchikian, The Armenian Review

Gregory Aftandilian, National Association for Armenian Studies & Research

7:00-7:30 pm

Conference Introduction

Ara Sanjian, University of Michigan-Dearborn, “Why This Conference?”

7:30-9:30 pm

PANEL I: An Armenian “Cold War” before the Global Cold War?

Chair: Cam Amin, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Garabet K. Moumdjian, Independent historian, Pasadena, CA, “ARF Collusion in the Kurdish Rebellions of the 1920s and 1930s in Republican Turkey: In Search of the Origins of Islamized Armenians in Turkey”

Vahe Sahakyan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Negotiating Politics in a Time of Crisis: The Changing Course of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation During WWII and its Aftermath (1941-1947)”

Vartan Matiossian, Armenian National Education Committee, New York, “Fighting for History: An Unknown Polemics in the Beginnings of the Cold War”

Heitor Loureiro, São Paulo State University (UNESP), “Communism in the Armenian Community in São Paulo and Repression by the Political Police”

Khatchik DerGhougassian, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, “The Diffusion of the Cold War in the (Southern) Periphery of the Armenian Diaspora: The Pro/Against Soviet Divide in the Argentine-Armenian Community 1947-1987”

Nélida Boulgourdjian, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina, “Background of Soviet Policy Toward the Armenian Diaspora in the Early Cold War: The Case of the Armenian Diaspora in France and Argentina (1930-1950)”

Gevorg Petrosyan, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia, “The Impact of the Cold War and Turkish-Soviet Relations on Armenians in Turkey and Their Relations with Soviet Armenia (1945-1964)”

Discussant: Eldad Ben-Aharon, Royal Holloway, University of London

6:30-9:00 pm

Reception

SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2016

10:00 am-12:00 pm

PANEL VI: The Armenian “Cold War” in the Arab World from 1945 to 1970

Chair: Levon Chorbajian, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Hratch Tchilingirian, University of Oxford, “The Armenian Church During the Cold War Era and the Chasm Between Ejmiatsin and Antelias”

James Stocker, Trinity Washington University, “An Opportunity to Strike a Blow? The United States and the Struggle in the Armenian Apostolic Church, 1956-1963”

Khatchig Mouradian, Rutgers University, “The Cold War of Genocide: April 24 Editorials in the Lebanese-Armenian Party Political Press, 1945-1970”

Discussant: Benjamin F. Alexander, New York City College of Technology (CUNY)

12:00-12:15 pm

Coffee Break

12:15-1:00 pm

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION I: The Chronologies of Global Cold War and the Armenian “Cold War” Compared

Opening remarks: Ara Sanjian, University of Michigan-Dearborn

1:00-2:30 pm

Lunch

2:30-3:45 pm

PANEL VII: The Middle East in the 1970s and ’80s: The Era of ASALA and JCAG